Quotes About Selflessness

Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.

Block Watch, Crime Watch, we have hundreds of thousands of Americans, every day and night, risking their lives, going out for no pay as volunteers, protecting Americans like all of you and not asking anything in return. And the other day I'm speaking in a high school in New Jersey and the youngsters go, oh, you're just like Zimmerman.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else's.

When you become a mother, it's a common thing that you just want to put every ounce of your being into your child, which is a very beautiful experience.

I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.

There's one person that you would give up your life for, and that's your child.

You'll do anything for your child and that's what I'm doing.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Don't focus on the negativity. Focus on the positivity and the people that want you to do well; then, do it for them and for yourself. Sometimes I do things for myself. Sometimes I do things for my family. Sometimes I do things for my friends.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

I've always tried to play for the team, not just for myself but for the whole team.